During the past decade, the educators who operate America’s public schools have been increasingly preoccupied with students’ scores on standardized achievement tests. That’s because schools whose ...

While presenting his budget before a joint session of Congress on February 27, President George W. Bush declared that "[m]easuring is the only way to know whether all our children are learning." ...

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We must rethink testing to encourage real learning. The “No Child Left Behind” Act of 2001, an enormously important federal law intended to improve America’s public schools, may actually produce the ...